The urban landscape is becoming the environment most familiar to most of humanity, which
has consequences for society, the environment, and biodiversity. Here, we present a …

Despite research on urban heat island (UHI) effect has increased exponentially over the last
few decades, a systematic review of factors contributing to UHI effect has scarcely been …

Highlights•Threats to urban pollinators include urban intensification, climate change,
pesticides and pollution.•Adding honey bee hives could negatively affect wild pollinators in …

The ever-increasing human footprint even in very remote places on Earth has inspired
efforts to document biodiversity vigorously in case organisms go extinct. However, the data …

Remote sensing of plant phenology as an indicator of climate change and for map** land
cover has received significant scientific interest in the past two decades. The advancing of …

Urban heat island (UHI), the phenomenon that urban areas experience higher temperatures
compared to their surrounding rural areas, has significant socioeconomic and environmental …

The inconstant climate change and rapid urbanization substantially disturb the global
thermal balance and induce severe urban heat island (UHI) effect, adversely impacting …

Though urban areas represent a small fraction of global land cover, they have an outsized
impact on hydrological processes. Within these areas, the pathways that water follows are …

Abstract Knowledge about the impacts of urban heat islands (UHI) and associated thermal
gradients on vegetation seasonality (ie phenology) is vital for understanding spatial patterns …

Despite the importance of urban trees, their growth reaction to climate change and to the
urban heat island effect has not yet been investigated with an international scope. While we …